Javier Bardem

Acting · Born 1969-03-01 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Biography

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. In a career that has lasted over thirty years, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, seven Goya Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award. A son of actress Pilar Bardem, he first became known for such Spanish films as Jamón jamón(1992), Boca a boca (1995), Carne trémula(1997), Los lunes al sol (2002), and Mar adentro (2004). He received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Reinaldo Arenas in Before Night Falls (2000), a criminal with cancer in Biutiful (2010), and Desi Arnaz in Being the Ricardos (2021). His portrayal of assassin Anton Chigurh in the Coen brothers' western film No Country for Old Men (2007) won him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem…

Filmography

• Live Flesh as David de Paz
• The Sea Inside as Ramón Sampedro
• Don't Tempt Me as Tony Graco
• Jamon Jamon as el chorizo
• Before Night Falls as Reinaldo Arenas
• Vicky Cristina Barcelona as Juan Antonio Gonzalo
• The Dancer Upstairs as Agustín Rejas
• Goya's Ghosts as Lorenzo Casamares
• Love in the Time of Cholera as Florentino Ariza
• No Country for Old Men as Anton Chigurh